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Friday, June 1, 2012

Drawstring Bags!

My local quilt guild holds a bi-annual Quilt Show. The next one is scheduled for the end of October - so just a couple months away. The call has gone out to the guild to provide some items for a boutique we'll be holding as part of the show.

Now, with my work schedule, if I don't get anything done before August - it's just not going to happen. So, I figured while I had the time and motivation, I'd work on some items for the boutique.

I wanted a fairly simple, but still fun project. I was immediately drawn to Jeni of In Color Order's tutorial for her lined drawstring bag. I had made two of them before for Valentine's day and knew they came together really cute!

Now, I know how hard designers work to make a pattern - so I wanted to make sure this was all on the up and up. Since my guild will be selling these items, I purchased her pattern which provides instructions for a bunch of different sizes!

I went through my fabric scraps and put together some fun color combinations. I stuck mainly with the original size in her tutorial - but made one larger bag as well.

Here are the first four bags I made. The one with the trees is a bit larger in size. The red and black ones have sheep knitting as the top fabric! I wish I had enough scraps of that left over to make it the body of the bag, but just the top panels were a tight cut!

Here are some close-up shots.

Sheep and red bag!

I figured the fall one was appropriate for an October boutique!

All in all, I think I ended up making 13 bags. I just need to take some photos of the others!